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  • AN ETHICAL GUIDE TO MURDER
    AN ETHICAL GUIDE TO MURDER
    JENNY MORRIS
    How to Kill Your Family meets The Power in this entertaining and thought-provoking read, that asks: If you had the power between life and death, what would you do? Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another - something she finds out the hard way when her best frie...
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  • MEDUSA
    MEDUSA
    ROSIE HEWLETT
    You know her name, you know her story. Just not the right one... Within the depths of the Underworld the formidable snake-haired Gorgon has finally had enough. Tired of being eternally and unjustly brandished a villain, Medusa has found the courage to face her tragic past and speak out. Determined to expose the centuries of lies surrounding her name, Medusa gives unparalleled ...
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  • NATIVE SON
    NATIVE SON
    RICHARD WRIGHT
    Reissued to mark the 80th anniversary of Native Son's publication - discover Richard Wright's brutal and gripping masterpiece this black history month. '[Native Son] possesses an artistry, penetration of thought, and sheer emotional power that places it into the front rank of American fiction' Ralph Ellison Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a l...
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  • TRUE SPIRIT
    TRUE SPIRIT
    JESSICA WATSON
    There is something different about adventurers; about the way their minds work. They look at the world as a place of challenges and though they know what fear is, they refuse to be hindered by it. 'Inspiring, personal and heartfelt' HEARALD SUN 'A simple yet addictive narrative . . . stirring stuff' COURIER-MAIL On 15 May 2010, after 210 days at sea and 24,285 nautical miles, ...
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  • A GAY (HAPPY) NOVEL
    A GAY (HAPPY) NOVEL
    SAMUEL. OLIVER
    Eager to start a new chapter of his life during his first year of college, Red sees a new world of opportunities on the horizon. But clouding that view is the challenge of openly accepting himself as a gay man. As he adjusts to campus life and navigates the complexities of self-discovery, Red confronts his fears, explores his sexuality, and ultimately finds the courage to embra...
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  • AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS
    AMONG THE BURNING FLOWERS
    SAMANTHA SHANNON
    With the awakening of fire-breathing dragons, Among the Burning Flowers sees the first sparks of danger that threaten to consume the world in The Priory of the Orange Tree. Take your first steps into the epic. Yscalin, land of sunshine and lavender, will soon be ablaze. It has been centuries since the Draconic Army took wing, almost extinguishing humankind. Marosa Vetalda is...
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  • MISTLETOE AND MISHIGAS
    MISTLETOE AND MISHIGAS
    M. A. WARDELL
    Sheldon Soleskin should be having a horrible day. Even though he's been unexpectedly transferred to a new school right before the holidays, has only one day to set up his new classroom, and just discovered his twin sister's been hiding an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's Christmas Eve wedding, he's still ready to take on the world with a smile on his face and a skip in his step...
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  • THE GENDERED BRAIN
    THE GENDERED BRAIN
    GINA RIPPON
    A myth-debunking assessment of gender and the brain, presenting thoughts and brain processes as gendered. Reading maps or reading emotions? Barbie or Lego? Do you have a female brain or a male brain? Or is that the wrong question? We live in a gendered world where we are bombarded with messages about sex and gender. On a daily basis we face deeply ingrained beliefs that your se...
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  • EAGLE STRIKE
    EAGLE STRIKE
    ANTHONY HOROWITZ
    The fourth, thrilling episode in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series.In the fourth book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex is in the South of France, hoping to sever his links with MI6. But when a sudden attack on his hosts plunges Alex back into a world of violence, he soon uncovers a plan called Eagle strike - a disc...
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  • NIGHT FLIGHT
    NIGHT FLIGHT
    ANTOINE. DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
    Fabien tonight was wandering over the vast splendour of a sea of clouds, but below him lay eternity. Inspired by his career as an aviator, Saint-Exupery's soaring novel follows the journeys of three pilots delivering mail overnight. The author's beautiful, weightless prose is as haunting as his own disappearance in flight, eerily foreshadowed by his protagonist Fabien, who beco...
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  • CHERNOBYL PRAYER
    CHERNOBYL PRAYER
    SVETLANA ALEXIEVICH
    Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature'Absolutely essential and heartbreaking reading. There's a reason Ms. Alexievich won a Nobel Prize' - Craig Mazin, creator of the HBO / Sky TV series Chernobyl- A new translation of Voices from Chernobyl based on the revised text -In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation ...
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  • THOMAS AQUINAS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
    THOMAS AQUINAS: A VERY SHORT INTRODUCTION
    FERGUS KERR
    "Thomas Aquinas is one of the giants of medieval philosophy, a thinker who had - and who still has - a profound influence on Western thought. Aquinas was a controversial figure in his time who was often engaged in fierce theological debates. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. This Very ...
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  • BLOOD FEVER
    BLOOD FEVER
    CHARLIE HIGSON
    Young Bond: Blood Fever is the second book in Charlie Higson's high-impact, explosive Young Bond series. James Bond has discovered danger. Now it's come looking for him. An Eton boy's family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count h...
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  • PYGMY
    PYGMY
    CHUCK PALAHNIUK
    Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland (a mash-up of North Korea, Cuba, Communist-era China, and Nazi-era Germany), as an 'exchange student' into the welcoming arms of his Simpsons-spinoff Midwestern host family. Host cow father (he works in the biological weapons complex outside of town), chicken ne...
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  • HINDUISM
    HINDUISM
    KIM KNOTT
    Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it in the twenty-first century. She discusses key preoccupations of Hinduism such as the centrality of the Veda ...
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  • THE LAST LEONARDO
    THE LAST LEONARDO
    BEN LEWIS
    500 years after the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, Ben Lewis considers the unrivalled legacy of his art through an original biography of the `Salvator Mundi' (Saviour of the World) - the lost Da Vinci painting. In 2017, Leonardo Da Vinci's small oil painting, the Salvator Mundi entered global popular consciousness with its record-breaking $450m sale in 2017. The Salvator is, in th...
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  • THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT
    THE MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE FOR A HAT
    OLIVER SACKS
    In his most extraordinary book, Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders. These are case studies of people who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognise people or common objects. In Dr Sacks's splendid and sympathetic telling, each t...
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  • UGLIES SERIES 4 BOOKS COLLECTION SET
    UGLIES SERIES 4 BOOKS COLLECTION SET
    SCOTT WESTERFELD
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    44,95 €

  • THE SPANISH ARMADA
    THE SPANISH ARMADA
    ROBERT HUTCHINSON
    After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to destroy Protestant England and began preparing invasion plans, leading to an intense intelligence war between the two countries, culminating in the dramatic sea battles of 1588. Rob...
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  • THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    THE TURN OF THE SCREW
    HENRY JAMES
    A new edition of a Gothic novella which has inspired many horror and psychological thrillers since its publication. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the definitive text and extensive appendices. An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and dee...
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  • THE THRONE OF GLASS COLOURING BOOK
    THE THRONE OF GLASS COLOURING BOOK
    SARAH J. MAAS
    For the first time, fans of Sarah J. Maas's sweeping New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass saga can experience the vivid imagery of her expansive world. Celaena battling the ridderak in the catacombs, Chaol in the gardens of the glass castle, Manon riding her wyvern through the Crossing, and many other favourite moments, characters and objects come to life as readers explo...
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  • CONSIDER ME
    CONSIDER ME
    BECKA MACK
    In the ice-hockey romance that has taken TikTok by storm, the ultimate player turns romantic in order to win over the woman he is desperate to be with. Carter Beckett is the NHL's best player - both on and off the ice. His career is at its peak, his team is performing better than ever, and there's no shortage of women to spend the night with. What more could he want? Oliv...
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  • ELDEST
    ELDEST
    CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
    Darkness falls . . . Despair abounds . . . Evil reigns. Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider. It is the journey of a lifetime, each d...
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  • A SAINT FROM TEXAS
    A SAINT FROM TEXAS
    EDMUND WHITE
    "Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far grander fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society a...
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  • THE SHARDS
    THE SHARDS
    BRET EASTON ELLIS
    The Sunday Times Bestseller 'A full-spectrum triumph' - Guardian A sensational new novel from the bestselling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged Los Angeles high school friends as a serial killer strikes across the city. His first novel in 13 years, The Shards is Bret Easton Ellis at his inimitable best. LA, 1981. Buckley College...
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  • ONE PIECE (OMNIBUS EDITION), VOL. 6
    ONE PIECE (OMNIBUS EDITION), VOL. 6
    EIICHIRO ODA
    Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, the One Piece.As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Fruit, an enchanted Devil Fruit that gave him the ability to stretch like rubber. Its only drawback? He'll never be able to swim again—a serious han...
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  • GOSHAWK SUMMER
    GOSHAWK SUMMER
    JAMES ALDRED
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  • KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
    KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
    DAVID GRANN
    In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bu...
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  • HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD
    HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD
    HARUKI MURAKAMI
    A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn skulls and voracious librarians, John Coltrane and Lord Jim. Science fiction, detective story and post-modern manifesto all rolled into one rip-roaring novel, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is the tour de force that expanded Haruki Murakami's international following. ...
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  • DICTATORS
    DICTATORS
    FRANK DIKÖTTER
    'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim Il-sung, Ceausescu, Mengistu of Ethiopia and Duvalier of Haiti. No dictator can rule through fear and violence alone. Naked power can be grabbed and held temporarily, but it never suffices in the long term. A tyr...
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